How do you see yourself?
When you get well into a complicated task or a long term project do you see yourself or start to see yourself as a character in the project, reflecting the characteristics of the people who came before you chasing the same goals? I think I do.
For the same reason that kids who were into the movie Rattatouille or older kids really dug Anthony Bourdain's whole deal take on the lifestyle they associate with being a feral food artist, I took on the artists lifestyle.
Dudes that play guitar and sing in bands and grew up in the 70s and 80s have this deep littany of human tales, popularized through the music press and tabloids. I was on the road to find out, playing that role. I was doing the stuff that I was supposed to do, according to the “legend”- a word that conveniently means both lore and the key by which you read a map.
I even felt pretty good about it still when this song came rolling out with riffology owing to Neil Young and references to Ginsberg and The Band, unironically sprinkled there in.
Half Right
I just might get it half-right in the hours from three to five a.m. while the girls are busy losing friends to me. I see myself a damned site leadin’ with the other kids are sleepin’. The fate of the known world is up to me. And I'm a star ing rock and roll phenomenon. Reality don't hit til after dawn.
I live my nights high like a rocket. A stranger tells me I should stop it- a bigger man with half as much to burn. If I get a job my ass is draggin’. Spend a week home on the wagon. Yeah, you can take my turn. And I'm a starving rock and roll phenomenon. Reality don't hit til after dawn.
If you can read me I'm all right. And I can hold out here all night listening to the hippest Howl, best version of Stagefright.
I just might get it half right in the hours from three to five a.m. while the girls are busy losing friends to me.
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